Re: Troubleshooting sound on an es1371
Input us the Mpeg Layer 1/2/3 and it's enabled.
Output, i've tried both liboss and libesd because some people were
saying that liboss is locked by the Gnome Sound Manager sometimes.
-D
On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 05:38, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Didier Malenfant wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 18:57, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > > I missed the beginning of this thread, sorry, but I guess the basics -
> > > are the relevant modules loaded?
> >
> > Here's what it started with, the card seems detected (dmesg):
> >
> > es1371: version v0.22 time 19:13:40 Nov 18 2000
> > es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x03
> > es1371: found es1371 rev 3 at io 0xc800 irq 5
> > es1371: features: joystick 0x0
> > es1371: codec vendor (0x000000) revision 0 (0x00)
> > es1371: codec features none
> > es1371: stereo enhancement: no 3D stereo enhancement
> >
> > The modules are loaded (lsmod):
> >
> > Module Size Used by
> > nls_cp437 3880 1 (autoclean)
> > serial 19640 0 (autoclean)
> > mousedev 3600 0 (unused)
> > usbmouse 1624 0 (unused)
> > usbcore 41804 0 [usbmouse]
> > input 2688 0 [mousedev usbmouse]
> > rtl8139 11144 1
> > sound 56364 0 (unused)
> > soundlow 368 0 [sound]
> > es1371 26544 0
> > soundcore 2440 7 [sound es1371]
> > vfat 9408 0 (unused)
> > ntfs 35012 1
> > nfs 43820 1
> > lockd 41720 1 [nfs]
> > sunrpc 55452 1 [nfs lockd]
> > unix 11336 227 (autoclean)
> >
> > but 'cat /dev/sndstat' is empty:
> >
> > OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
> > Load type: Driver loaded as a module
> > Kernel: Linux blue 2.2.18pre21 #1 Sat Nov 18 18:47:15 EST 2000 i686
> > Config options: 0
> >
> > Installed drivers:
> >
> > Card config:
> >
> > Audio devices:
> >
> > Synth devices:
> >
> > Midi devices:
> >
> > Timers:
> > 0: System clock
> >
> > Mixers:
> >
> > Seems like sndstat being empty doesn't mean anything. One guy has it
> > working fine but sndstat looks the same as mine.
> >
> > > Many sound cards have different
> > > sound outs - try both the digital and the analog, as the module may
> > > not support both.
> >
> > I'm on analog to my speakers right now, I can try the other one but it
> > looks like something else is bothering it since things hang and xmms
> > doens't even start playing files (I press play and it just stops right
> > away).
> >
> > > Try (in /dev/) MAKEDEV audio - that'll recreate all
> > > the relevant /dev/ nodes.
> >
> > Did that.
> >
> > > Is your user in the audio group?
> >
> > Yes, we also tried chmod 777 on both /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer
> >
> > > When you cat a file to /dev/dsp, does it actually hang, or is it just
> > > pausing while the file is being catted? I mean, if you cat a 5 second
> > > .wav file, does it pause for longer than the 5 seconds.
> >
> > It hangs. I waited 10 minutes on a small file.
> >
> > > You can> strace these trials to see if the program thinks it is successfully
> > > opening /dev/dsp for writing, or if there is a problem.
> >
> > I'll try that, thanks.
> >
> > > OK - I'm out of ideas for now. Write back with details, and I'm sorry
> > > if I'm suggesting things already done.
> >
> > No problems, I really appreciate the help and a fresh outlook is always
> > good.
> >
> > -D
> >
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> What input/output plugins are you using and are they "enabled" ?
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